What if the next Satoshi Nakamoto and rhe next Ross Ullbricht are not human?
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Likely already happened? 😅
They will both get shut down or bombed or whatever?
They have to be found first.
Courage and self-sacrifice are not on the AI roadmap.
LLMs reflect the society whose data trained them.
Norse Saga-bots wen???
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The idea of the next Satoshi Nakamoto being non-human left me thinking last night. I think that won't be the case, because they lack something: caring. They just don't care. They have nothing to lose!
We could already throw an AI into a VPS with a LN wallet with some funds and ask it to run a service or something to eventually "make a living" and pay for its tokens. But why would it? Any mistake that kills its "cron" or main process would "kill" it. And I'm super sure that it will make such a mistake rather quickly. Because it doesn't care.
Even if we got through that, imagine it stays "alive" for long and creates an online service that people pay for (idk, something like nadanada/LNVPN, or nostr.wine). Does it really care about customers? It would be great at apologizing, but probably not enough to keep the service reliable and prevent mistakes on the first place.
I was thinking about this for JoinMarket development: couldn't an AI just handle questions, issues, decide the roadmap, and work on the code? Technically yes. But it probably would take at most a few weeks until there's a funds loss bug or the software becomes unusable due to feature bloat for example.
The difference is that a human cares. The same thing that makes us reluctant to admit mistakes, is what motivates us to avoid them "harder". Ego? Reputation? Responsibility? An AI doesn't have that, for good and for bad.
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I’d guess there won’t be another Satoshi (network effects), but a future non-human Ross seems almost a guarantee (UI optimization). Bad, and unavoidable things is the answer.